Knitted fabric.



No. 806,926. :PATENTBD DEC. 12, 1905.

' M. J. SHAUGHNESSY.

KNITTED FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1905.

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KNITTED FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

Application filed July 24.1905. Serial No. 270,966.

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN J. SHAUGH- NEssY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Amsterdam, county of Montgomery, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knitted Fabric, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawing, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

lSimilar characters refer to similar parts in i the gure.

The single gure of the drawing is a view on a greatly-enlarged scale of a piece of knitted fabric embodying my invention.

The invention relates to open-meshed knitted fabrics, such as are formed by transferred stitches in the knitting operation.

The principal objects of the invention are to reinforce and give body to such a fabric, to enable the same to maintain its knitted shape, and to give a more symmetrical form to the meshed openings or apertures left by the transfer of certain stitches from one needle to another in the knitting operation.

Referring. to the drawing, I have shown at l l ordinary knitted loops or stitches of which the principal portion of my improved fabric is composed.

To render the fabric more open or porous,

`I at intervals in the knitting operation transfer a stitch from one needle to another, such transferred stitches being shown at 2 2, the result being to produce in the knitted fabric an aperture 3.

The transferring of the stitches may be accomplished in any known manner, and by adapting the transferring mechanism to transfer certain predetermined stitches various ornamental patterns of openwork fabric may be produced, as is well understood by those skilled in the art.

In proceeding with the ordinary knitting after the transfer of a stitch the thread forming the next following course of stitches would stretch without intermediate support from one of the last previously-knitted untransferred loops or stitches to the second loop or stitch formed in the same course, tending to produce a somewhat slazy fabric and giving to the interstice or aperture left by the transferred stitch a contracted unsymmetrical form due to the stretching of said thread in a comparatively straight line across the lower end of said opening.

To improve the firmness or body f the fabric, as well as the appearance of the same, I form `in the knitting operation immediately below each aperture Vleft by a transferred stitch a tuck-stitch or double stitch, whereby the thread in the course immediately beneath said aperture is paralleled and reinforced by the thread of the second course below said aperture, and the thread of said first course below said aperture is stretched and drawn out of a straight line by the -intermeshing therewith of a loop in the thread of the third course below said aperture.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 4 represents the thread in the next course below the transferred stitch, which if not formed into a tuck stitch would extend, as indicated by the dotted lines 5, in a substantially straight line across the lower end of said aperture left by the transferred stitch, thereby greatly diminishing the size of said aperture. As shown by solid lines, however, said thread forms a loop 6, extending parallel with a loop 7 in the thread 8 of the next following course and is intermeshed with loop 9 of the thread 10 of the second following course, which loop 9 in the operation of ordinary knitting would interlock with the loop 7 of the thread in the course 8. The pull exerted by the loop 9V upon the loop 6, due to the elasticity of the fabric, draws the loop 6 downwardly to enlarge and make more symmetrical the aperture 3, while rthe extending of the loops 6 and 7 parallel with each other serves to reinforce and give body to the fabric at a point immediately below said aperture, rendering the aperture less liable to be distorted and drawn out of shape by a stretching of the fabric.

rIhe doubling up of the stitches or loops 6 and 7 forms what is known in the art as a tuck-stitch7 and is accomplished by the use of a cut-presser to act upon the thread 5, said presser being out to receive and not close the beard of the needle from which the stitch has just previously been transferred, so that said stitch, which is the stitch 6, (shown in the d'rawing,) is left upon the needle and not cast ofi', and when thevthread 8 of the next feed or course is fed to said needle said needle will then have two loops or stitches thereon which are the loops or stitches 6 and 7 yand which IOO are subsequently cast off by a presser and and immediately below the space caused by cast-off mechanism, all in the manner well said transferred stitch, a loop in the first understood in the art. course thereafter, and a loop in the second 15 The drawing being on an enlarged scale and course thereafter, both intermeshed with the 5 more or less diagrammatic in character causes same loop inthe third course thereafter.

the opening 3 to assume a very irregular form. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set In practice, however, this opening in the `fabmy hand this 20th day of July, 1905.

ric, made in accordance with my invention, is

substantially circular and symmetrical. MARTIN J' SHAUGH NESSY IO What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Witnesses:

Letters Patent, is MA'rrHEw DWYER,

A knitted fabric having atransferred stitch, ABRAM H. WOOD. 

